The duration of uncertain times: Audiovisual information about intervals is integrated in a statistically optimal fashion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Hartcher O'Brien, Jess ^a,b   Di Luca, Massimiliano ^a,c   Ernst, Marc O ^a,b,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDIOVISUAL INFORMATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONSENSUS; DURATION OF UNCERTAIN TIME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MULTISENSORY INFORMATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SENSORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; HEARING; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; TIME; VISION;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; UNCERTAINTY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84897053469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089339     Document Type: Article

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